Kampfsporthistoriker und Kampfkünstler
Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, family history, and miscellaneous history.
On February 23, 1946, my great uncle Francis Mosblech married Rosemary Kalt at St. Peter and Paul Catholic Church. The 23-year old Francis had recently returned from service in the U.S. Army during World War II. Aunt Rosemary was the daughter of Mr. und Frau. William J. Kalt. Father Clarence Winkler officiated the ceremony. The March 3, 1946 Ausgabe von
When William Rudolph broke out of the St. Louis Jail on Independence Day 1903, the newspapers called it an act of unprecedented daring. Jedoch, twenty-two years earlier, Frank Fone and John D. Shea broke out of the St. Louis Jail the same way. Fone and Shea were local criminals, who frequented the Downtown area. Shea was violent, while Fone was
An einer Stelle, bevor ich mein eigenes Haus gekauft, Ich dachte, Reparaturen zu Hause waren eine meiner Fähigkeiten. I helped my grandfather, Gilbert Ellis, make repairs to our house and the flat he lived in. Grandpa Ellis hat mich gelehrt, wie man Steckdosen ersetzen, washers on sinks and build lots of things with wood. I put together lots of prefabricated
On Christmas Night 1902, zwei kleine Stadt, wenig Zeit, Überfallmänner sprengten den Safe der Union, Missouri-Bank. Nachdem er ein paar Bürger bedroht hatte, Sie sind mit Over davongekommen $15,000. Die Männer waren einige Monate lang relativ sicher, bis die Pinkerton Detective Agency eingeschaltet wurde. Die Pinkertons hatten eine landesweite Vertretung, Das kam den Vereinigten Staaten am nächsten
Um Herum 10 am on Thursday, April 10, 1919, five heavily armed men burst into the Baden Bank. The bandits confronted M.W. Muntzel, the cashier, and demanded access to the vault. They rounded up the four other employees as Muntzel led the group to the vault. The robbers wore colored bandanas to obscure their features. While two of the five men
August 17, 1891, St. Louis Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick celebrated his 85th birthday and fifty years as head of the St. Louis Catholic Church. In 1841, Kenrick was appointed as Coadjutor Bishop of St. Louis. When St. Louis Bishop Joseph Rosati died in Rome during 1843, Bishop Kenrick was appointed Bishop of the St. Louis Diocese. In 1847, die
In 1934, Charles Arthur “Hübscher Junge” Floyd beendet seine kriminelle Karriere in einem East Liverpool, nach einem Ohio Maisfeld mit FBI-Agenten und lokalen Strafverfolgungsbehörden herausschießen. Jedoch, Im Dezember 1925, er war Häftling Nummer 29078 am Missouri Penitentiary. Die 21-jährige Floyd hatte gerade den Kroeger Grocery und Baking Company Hauptbüro auszurauben verurteilt worden
Am Oktober 16, 1920, Special Officers Preston Anslyn and William A. Moller were following two burglars in the 3800 block of Juanita Avenue during a heavy fog. One or both burglars shot the officers from a gangway as they walked onto the lawn of a house, where they thought the burglars entered. The officers both suffered fatal wounds, which killed
Running a pawn shop has always been a tough business because you constantly have to be on the look out for thieves attempting to pawn their stolen goods in your shop. In the late 19th Century, police detectives worked with pawn shops, as they do today, to try to stop the fencing of goods. In August 1885, future St. Louis
On December 15, 1903, about 2:00 o’clock in the morning, George Harding, the clerk of the Erie Hotel, was busy working in his office. Used to working alone, Harding had relaxed his vigil and didn’t notice three large, hard looking men enter the hotel at Fourth and Clark Streets. His attention was arrested, when the first man entered his office